Week in tech: FM radio, broadband speeds, and bandwidth hogs

Radio, RIAA: mandatory FM radio in cell phones is the future: Radio stations are willing to fork over $100 million a year to music labels, but in return they want Congress to make FM receivers mandatory in portable devices. The labels think having an FM radio in every Droid and iPhone is a great idea, and both sides hope to go to Congress soon.

Oracle's Java lawsuit undermines its open source credibility: Oracle's lawsuit against Google for its use of patented Java technology raises serious questions about Oracle's future stewardship of the open source software technologies that it acquired from Sun. In addition to seriously undermining Oracle's open source credibility, the move could also have a chilling effect on Android adoption. Ars explores the post-lawsuit landscape.

Net neutrality protesters lay siege to Google (for an hour): Last week, about 100 activists trekked to the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA to protest the company's new watered down stance on net neutrality. We followed along with a question: can the open Internet movement prevail without Google?

Google, Verizon warned not to "cable-ize" the Internet: Four prominent net neutrality supporters in Congress rail against the Google/Verizon "neutrality" proposal, saying that "no private interest should be permitted to carve up the Internet to suit its own purposes." Still, Congress has no plans to do anything about it.